Michael Dan Tighe

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• Departure: 18 Nov 1921, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
• Arrival: 28 Nov 1921, Liverpool, Lancashire

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1st son of William Tighe of Rossanagh, Asford, Co. Wicklow, by Lucy Emily, daughter of Frederick Thomas Lewin of Castlegrove in Burke's 'Landed Gentry of Ireland'. Educated at Haileyburn College.

Farming at Rossenagh, Co. Wicklow (1912-22 and 1930-37); in Rhodesia (1923-29) and from 1937-80 at Teg Down Farm, Nr. Winchester (see Burke's Landed Gentry, 1972).

Died:
Death Age (est): 88

Dan married Beatrice Mary Gibbs on 28 Jan 1930 in Westminster, London. Beatrice (daughter of George Harold Gibbs and Anna Everilda Caroline Webber, of Kellavil) was born on 26 May 1900 in Ablington, Gloucestershire; died on 22 Feb 1986 in Winchester, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 15 Jul 1900, Bibury, Gloucestershire

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Baptised 15 July 1900 at Bibury, Co. Glos.

In 1918 took course in motor engineering (5 weeks). Red Cross (1939-45); Breeding Pembroke Corgis (1945-68).

Birth:
Ablington Manor

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• Residence: 31 Mar 1901, Glencaly, Wicklow, Ireland; Age: 32; Relation to Head of House: Head

Wilfred married Lucy Emily Lewin on 21 Apr 1898. Lucy was born on 23 Jan 1870 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; died on 10 Aug 1964; was buried in Nun's Cross, Wicklow, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 31 Mar 1901, Glencaly, Wicklow, Ireland; Age: 30; Relation to Head of House: Wife

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Lucy Lewin was one of the five daughters of Frederick Thomas Lewin of Castlegrove, Co. Galway, and Cloghans, Co. Mayo. Lucy’s grandfather Thomas Lewin served with the 30th Regiment during the Napoleonic Wars and her father was a prominent magistrate in Counties Galway and Mayo. Her brother Brigadier General Arthur Lewin, DSO, commanded the 40th Infantry Brigade during the catastrophe of Gallipoli and later emigrated to Kenya. Another brother, Captain Frederick Lewin of the Connaught Rangers, died of wounds received in 1915. Wilfred and Lucy lived at Ballina Park outside Rathnew where they raised four sons – Dan, Charles, Toby and Lester - and a daughter, Noreen Una.

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• Baptism: 1870, Paddington, London; St Michael's
• Residence: 1881, Christchurch, Hampshire

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Baptised at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Charterhouse School, Surrey, 1883-6. Buried 31 December 1926 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard. Will proved 29 January 1927.

2nd Lieut. 60th Rifles (Militia) c. 1888. In Australia c. 1889-91. Student at the Agricultural College, Cirencester, c. 1892-96, following on which he and his brothers Stanley and Antony were for a few years in the partnership of a brewery at Ashford, Kent. He and his wife resided at Ablington Manor c. 1901-3. He was in delicate health a great part of his married life. In his last years they lived at Slough. He inherited, but gave to the Bishop of Bath & Wells the advowson of Hutton (see George Louis Monck Gibbs).

Portrait by T. W. Webber, and crayon by A. G. Witherby ("Spy" of "Vanity Fair") both last in possession of his widow.

Birth:
8 Lancaster Gate

Died:
Baylis House

George married Anna Everilda Caroline Webber, of Kellavil on 2 Sep 1897 in Ballintubbert, Laois, Ireland. Anna (daughter of Thomas Wingfield Webber and Mathilda Emily Barstow) was born on 21 Sep 1874 in Portarlington, Laois, Ireland; died on 11 Aug 1977 in Winchester, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1901, Bibury, Gloucestershire; Age: 26; Relation to Head of House: Wife

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1st daughter of Thomas Wingfield Webber of Kellavil, Queen's County, JP and DL (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry of Ireland'), by Mathilda Emily, 4th daughter of Thomas Barstow of Garrow Hill, county of York.

Lived in 1932 at 87 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington. Portrait, age 18, by Richard Jack, R.A., last in possession of her daughter Beatrice. Like many in her family she was an artist and a very good one; she bought Smallwood in 1940 and gave a home there to her sister Alice, Lady Coote, till she died in 1975.

Latterly she spent 2 years at the Tiled House Nursing Home nearby and died 11 Aug. 1977 (aged 102). During her last 3 years she knitted many squares for Oxfam blankets, although partially blind.

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• Occupation: Merchant S America
• Baptism: 24 May 1838, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Wiltshire
• Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 32; Relationship: Head
• Residence: 1881, London; Age: 42; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Head

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Baptised there 24 May 1838. Educated at Marlborough College 1947-53. Died at his residence Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts 26 November and was buried 1 December 1881 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and in Aldenham Church and Memorial Screen in Elstree Chapel. Will proved 1882.

He inherited Belmont, Wraxall, on his father's death in 1865 (subject to his mother's life interest) and sold it in 1870 to his uncle William Gibbs of the adjoining Tyntesfield. Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1855 (was in London 1855-59; in William Gibbs & Co., Peru & Chile, 1859-62; in London, as a manager of A. Gibbs & Sons 1863, as a partner 1865-81). Visited New York 1863, Spain and Portugal 1864, Mexico 1869 all on business of the firm. A director of the London Assurance Co. 1865 (deputy Governor 1878, sub-Governor Dec. 1878-81).

A benefactor to Elstree church. Patron of the living of Hutton, Somerset (see VI, n33). Resided at 14 Devonshire Terrace, Paddington, 1864-67; Nutwood, Bickley, Kent, 1867-70; Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts., 1870-81; 46 Grosvenor Street, Westminster, 1881. See book In Memoriam mentioned below under entry for his wife Laura Beatrice Hallam and Obituary notice in The Guardian of Dec. 1881.

Portraits (head) in possession of his daughter Beatrice Rhoda Gibbs; 2 posthumous portraits by Hanson Walker (one last in possession of Antony Gibbs & Sons, the other in that of his grandson Lt.-col George Arthur Gibbs; watercolour thought to be of G. L. M. Gibbs last in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley).



1851 CENSUS - Aged 12, at Marlborough College.
1871 CENSUS - Aged 32, living at Deacon's Hill, Edgware.Occ. Merchant. Children, 6 listed, no wife.
1881 CENSUS - Aged 42 , living at 46 Lower Grosvenor St. Occ. Merchant, S. America.
Laura, aged 38, Lillian, aged 15, & Mabel , aged16. Also present, Edmund Elton, 54,
(brother in law), Justice of the Peace - Somerset, and wife Mary, 56.
PROBATE - 1 March 1882, personal estate of £127,333 19s 11d.

( Refer to National Trust guide book for Tyntesfield for family tree.)

Died:
Deacon's Hill

George married Laura Beatrice Elton on 5 Jan 1864 in East Clevedon, Somerset. Laura (daughter of Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet and Rhoda Susan Willis) was born on 29 Mar 1842 in Rome, Italy; died on 30 Aug 1911 in Bourton, Dorset; was buried on 4 Sep 1911 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 26 Apr 1842, Rome, Italy; British Chaplaincy
• Residence: 1851, Clevedon, Somerset
• Residence: 1861, Tormoham, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, St Margaret and St John, London

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1st daughter of Sir Arthur Hallam Elton (7th Baronet), died 1883) of Clevedon Court, Somerset, by his 1st wife Rhoda Susan (died 1873), who was daughter of James Willis of Atherfield and Freshwater House, Isle of Wight, and widow of Captain James C. Baird. Was buried 4 September 1911 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Will proved 9 October 1911.

After her husband died she resided first at Queen's Gate Gardens, Kensington, next at Gosden House, Bramley, Surrey 1883-90; 29 Queen's Gate Terrace, Kensington, 1890-7; Ablington Manor, Glos. 1891-1901; 56 Ennismore Gardens, Westminster, 1899-1911.



( Refer to National Trust guide book to Clevedon Court for family tree.)

1851 CENSUS - Aged 9, living with parents and grandfather.
Also, 2 stepsisters (children of her mother's first marriage.)


Died:
Chaffeymoor Grange

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• Residence: 31 Mar 1901, Ballyadams, Queen's Co., Ireland

Thomas married Mathilda Emily Barstow on 22 Sep 1869 in York, Yorkshire. Mathilda was born on 17 Feb 1842 in Fulford, Yorkshire; died on 18 Jul 1917 in Mountmellick, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]